Sotomayor, the nation’s first Hispanic justice, was asked at a talk at Yale Law School Monday about her use of the term “undocumented immigrants” rather than the traditional illegal alien. Sotomayor characterized the issue as a regulatory problem and said labeling immigrants criminals seemed insulting to her.

“I think people then paint those individuals as something less than worthy human beings and it changes the conversation,” Sotomayor said.

It was not clear if Sotomayor was aware that it is a crime to illegally cross the border or overstay a visa, and that re-entry after deportation is punishable by up to 5 years in jail. It was also not clear if Sotomayor was aware of the many crimes committed by illegal aliens who live in the United States.

Illegal aliens commit felonies in order to get jobs. Illegal aliens who use fraudulent documents, perjure themselves on I-9 forms, and commit identity theft in order to get jobs.

Perhaps her fellow justices can clue her in as to the fact that all illegal aliens are by their very nature “criminals”.

But then it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Sotomayor is slow on the uptake, as she herself has admitted she was in over her head at the Supreme Court, a job she clearly was not qualified for when nominated by Barack Obama, as many pundits warned.

Sotomayor told Yale students she didn’t even know what an Ivy League college was when a friend suggested she apply. She wound up attending Princeton and Yale Law School via affirmative action.

On the Supreme Court since 2009, Sotomayor said it was tough at first as justices made references that went over her head. She said joining the high court amounted to joining an ongoing conversation among justices who had served for years.

“I figure I may not be the smartest judge on the court but I’m going to be a competent justice,” she said. “I’m going to try to be the best I can and each year I think my opinions have been getting better. And I’m working at finding my voice a little bit.”

Just as it is illegal to murder it is illegal to enter the United States without passing through customs. Both have laws with punishment, illegal is illegal. Why do not throw away all the laws so we can have total anarchy? j/k But why are we enforcing some laws and looking the other way? There are plenty of other aliens entering our country legally and taking a hit for those who think its alright to bypass this step and demand all the rights as citizens? Laws are in place but not practiced because of politicians, what happened to common sense?

Les Kimbler

Losers elected Obama. Soon as that happened, any sense this country had was just gone. When the president even flouts around the law, inviting illegal aliens to his state of the union and inauguration, and he is the Chief Law Enforcement officer, why should anyone else do it?

billybobz

sow sotomayor is nothing more than a pathetic bigot, too stupid to listen and was appointed by another pathetic bigot.

Edward Przydzial

she is the extra vote for amnesty when the time comes… 😉

Writemarsh

Why not have an unqualified person sitting on the supreme court? we have one in the white house and many in congress and the senate.

Ruben Escobar

Sotomayor, if you fall in a patch of grass you be eating like a DONKEY.

toma kay

You want to stop people from entering this country illegally take a lesson fron N. Korea. Eventhough, most of our relatives were once immigrants they respected the process and America respected their plight.

Aleksey Buynovskiy

what kind of law school she attended ?

Diane Cranford

Most likely never did ,what got her the job she ant white and most likely not here legally ,president is not legal either

Kulcuda

This coming from a Supreme Court Justice is so F-ing unbelievable. Then it is insulting to have you on the bench if you do not know anything about breaking the laws

Pat Boyd

When a person commits a crime, are they not criminals? Where has common sense gone?

Bigdog 22

Yes they are. That is why crime is the root word for criminal.

babyowl53

Yes, this woman needs an education on what the word “illegal” means. It’s obvious she didn’t learn that is school.

It is illegal to come into any country without the proper
documentation….what about that can this woman not understand? And that
brings up the question how did she make it this far?

Oh, I see….she is Hispanic and now her idea makes sense. Guess she hasn’t realized that as a Supreme Court Justice she is suppose to be non-biased….guess she didn’t learn that either.

Sotomayor….people don’t paint these individuals as something less than worthy human beings and changing the conversation. What we believe is that they are breaking the law and getting away with it and people like you are allowing it and not holding the law breakers accountable for their actions. As a Supreme Court Judge, you should already know that…SO shame, shame on you.

Edward Przydzial

she is a brown shirt plant. they are all speaking the language of the border buddies. they didn’t cross the border, the border crossed them…

Shelly-Sherm Mowery Rhoten

The are here “illegally” so by definition, they are criminals.

Dan_USMC

Let’s not cloud the issue with the facts

James_Baker

So if you ever brake the law, you are forever labeled as a criminal? Speeding is a crime just as much as crossing an imaginary line. I bet most people reading this must be criminals then.

scott

The only problem is that it isn’t an “imaginary line”….it’s an International Border”.
Yes, they continue to be criminals until they skip their happy asses back across it and enter LEGALLY!

James_Baker

You could not miss the point any further if you tried. Even if you tried as hard as the “reporter” that “wrote” this article.

scott

Go to South Korea, and start heading North. Someone will point out that “imaginary line” for ya.

James_Baker

Someone really needs to draw you a picture! Obviously you need help understanding this is a complex issue and you get your “news” from a single ( or like minded ) source(s).
That border is in a DMZ and is very physical. Much of our southern border is not marked at all, most of our coast and northern border are not free to cross. If you expect people to starve rather than walk into another country, or refuse to see that is the choice many of these humans have, you are a fool.

scott

Maybe you can explain the difference between our Northern border and our Southern border. Seems to me one can walk across one as easily as the other…

James_Baker

Our northern border with Canada (over 5000 miles) is not patrolled. There are border crossings with light security nearby but only nearby. Our southern border with Mexico (less than 2000 miles) is patrolled, has electronic sensors and over 600 miles of fence. All of which are focused on areas more heavily populated.

Bigdog 22

Why would Canadian’s want to cross our borders. They have it better than we do.

Robo

Except for the guns.

Edward Przydzial

robo… obama and the un are working on a treaty to disarm the usa as we speak…

Robo

That will be the beginning of rev/civil war 2.

Edward Przydzial

i agree and if they try it we need to rise up and stop them. i’m in. 🙂

scott

Thank you. You’ve made my point. They KNOW they are violating our “border”, crossing that “imaginary line” that separates one nation from another. One set of laws from another. BTW…are you aware of the penalties for illegally entering Mexico??
Maybe we should emulate them!

colin

Oh boy James are you wrong the northern border is patrolled it also has electronic sensors and cameras also night vision cameras and motion and heat sensors. Yes there are lots of places where you go miles and miles with out people there but it is patrolled very well. I can say this because I have knowledge of it for one I live at the border and also my ex-wife is a border agent.

Robo

Perhaps because Canadians don’t cross to overburden our tax paid schools, hospitals, courts, jails, etc., then illegally vote for those who turn a blind eye to the same?

Edward Przydzial

yes.

James Vanhoosier

I thought you said it was not marked,even when they climb the fence?

Bo Frye

A mind is a terrible thing to waste!

Robo

Why don’t you focus on how Mehico treats those that cross their southern border. Perhaps some reciprocity will begin to sound good to you.

Edward Przydzial

james you’re an apologist for criminals and you need to stfu.

Kirk Kersey

Obviously you need help understanding THE LAW.

TenMegaton

Back to your mom’s basement. You are being a pest.

Edward Przydzial

douche…

Mike Emmans

i guess rather then punishing the speeders with fines and loss of privledges, we should just erase the speed laws and give speeders amnesty

James_Baker

Have you ever crossed an international border? I have, yet I have never seen one. They are imaginary! You know, as in not existing in the physical world.

Bigdog 22

Fences aren’t imaginary. Get your sh*t together.

Edward Przydzial

bullets must be imaginary too… well james if they pass through you they are non existent so go try it out… jackass.

Ron Nealy

James_Baker: You are an idiot.

TenMegaton

You way too kind.

Robo

I’m sure this is why they use “coyotes” to get them across rather than trying themselves. They’re aware of the law, they just have no respect for it.

Edward Przydzial

dumb ass…

Charlie Hannum

Just because you believe them to be “imaginary” does not make them any less legal barriers. If the front door to your home is wide open. Does that “imaginary line” where your front door would normally be exist as a legal barrier to someone breaking and entering? Yes, James legal barriers are many times “imaginary lines”. Can you imagine the expense of creating a line that can be seen over any and all terrain? They are not “forever labeled criminal”. Only until such time as they exit the country, and enter “legally” using the proper documentation. I guarantee that those people that are speaking out against the “illegal” immigrants, would have no problem with them if they became “legal” immigrants, and not by amnesty. Would you give a thief or murderer amnesty? It is no different. Crime is crime.

James_Baker

Maybe you don’t know enough about the law to be having thus discussion. First the crime is crossing an imaginary line, not being in the country (although that is evidence to a crime without proof of a legal entry). Second under current law if you are found in the country illegally, and get deported you are not eligible for any legal status in the US. So this “leave and come back the legal way” is totally bogus. Third I say again, by this “logic” most of us are criminals.

Wfeather1942

By the way sunshine, what is the Mexican law on illegal aliens and how do they handle it, as surely we should have the same courtesy to illegal aliens as they do!

Bo Frye

Can you Break and or Enter a business or home? Yes. Go down to the river and cross into Mexico and see if they give a damn if the that river was imaginary in your mind. Look up their law on entering ILLEGALLY.

Diane Frank

please speak for yourself.. I was born here third generation and my great grandparents came thru by way of ellis island WITH proper documents..

Edward Przydzial

thank you very much. ditto.

Edward Przydzial

JAMES YOU’RE RETARDED.

James_Baker

I realize I am on a right wing page; that I have weak points, and I am not going to change any minds here. You people do not get the distinction between illegal and criminal, but then again it is a weak distiction. However, with all the strong real arguments that are out there some of you would rather call people names and hurl insults than present a real point. This, I find sad!

James Vanhoosier

there were no immigration laws when my family came here in 1639. But there are laws now and needs to be respected.

Brian Brumbaugh

If you continue speeding–yes. you are continuing to be a criminal. Should you stop speeding or should they go back across the border and then enter legally–no they are not criminals.

James_Baker

Thank you for actually responding on my point. We do not generlize speeders as criminals, yet it is also a violation of the law.

TenMegaton

Speeding is not a felony, dumbass.

Eve

Going over the speed limit in extreme excess is considered reckless driving and you could go to jail for it.

James_Baker

Niether is illegal entry

Vross

You are forever labelled a criminal so long as you are forever continuing the crime. Their crime did not end after they stepped across the border, it only began. The crime is ongoing every moment they are on American soil illegally. They are, simply by being here, committing a crime at this very moment.

Edward Przydzial

they assist each other in violating our borders… then they steal from welfare… city services etc. fill our prisons and threaten, harass and intimidate american citizens while they destroy every sanctuary city they invade… come see the mean streets of los angeles where i see their invasion first hand and up close. they are pure and simply lawless and continue every minute of every day they are here on american soil illegally. period.

Edward Przydzial

can’t vote. can’t have a firearm… right james? you’re an idiot. i hope juan spits a gobber in your taco asshole. you must be brain damaged. sympathizers like you are the reason 20 million have invaded our borders, changed our culture. open your eyes and lay off the pot fool.

cavetroll

You are not forever an illegal alien except by choice. You can always leave and correct the situation thereby illuminating the need to be called illegal alien or criminal. If borders are imaginary why does Mexico guard it’s southern border far more restrictively” then do we. Look at their “Undocumented Alien ” status , Lol. Don’t drop the soap buddy. There policy is block their southern border with no immigration and shove the poor uneducated workers through their Northern border to smuggle money back to Mexico. That’s the Mexican welfare and food stamp program and their “affordable care act” all rolled up in a one payer system. Ours.

Larry Launer

We are in trouble with an illegal alien lover on the court , But those senators knew that going in

reddogmax

OMG, Lord help us if this is the best we can get to serve on our Supreme Court.

Thomas Mitchell

I have nothing against hispanics,, but you are taking money out of my country illegally,, you are not suppose to be here illegally,,, you are breaking the law, a law of this land!!!!! Get the hell out of my country, and take the Dog Whisperer with you,,,,,, he also came here illegally!!!! he made a statement on TV that he was buying up America one little piece at a time!!!! Get the hell out,,,,, if you want to come back to my Country, come back legally!!!!!! Start the movement America!!!!!!

Curtis Ruuska

ya its not really fair to the people that go through all the proper steps, and time to get in, when all you have to do is sneak across. Law is law, until it is changed

Mark F. Heintz Sr.

Obama Best & Brightest…Makes me want to PUKE…

akansan

The bible says make your Yes’s Yes, and your No’s No. It’s as simple as that. The U.S.A. Should have brought it’s considerable weight down on Mexico to clean up their country and pay their citizens a decent wage. BUT corporations in the U.S. wanted cheap labor so the let our country be invaded and this judge is just making it worse. They are illegal immigrants!

IAmAProudAmerican

I find it insulting that a Supreme Court justice thinks illegal aliens should be called anything else but illegal aliens! They are illegal!!!

This stupid Rican, Sodomizer, is an insult to me. Damn dumb dim bulb of a Leftist broad. Its obvious she supports illegals and would even encourage them which makes her no different that Barack and his ilk in both parties. She, like her comrades, is worthy of prison and the gallows for defying the written law as it concerns violating our borders and coming her in violation of our laws. To hell with this witch!

Bubba Guthery

She is probably not aware of very much of anything.

MAUREEN HANSEN

She is the one that is insulting the lawful citizens of the grat country. Picking and choosing what laws to enforce is becoming a way of life everywhere. THAT IS INSULTING!!!!!!!

xpiolt

I I thought breaking the law makes one a criminal. If they are not criminals then I don’t know w what a criminal is.I guess.

Robert Higgins

then we need to stop calling drug dealers criminals!!!! We should instead refer to them as “Unlicensed pharmacists”! ahhh…people can be educated past their intelligence…Sotomayer is living proof…

Birdbranze

This is what affirmative action gets you, incompetent twits with no ability to do the job!

49_67_71_77

Anyone who believes illegals are not criminals shouldn’t be on the SCOTUS. On the other hand, the fact she attended an Ivy League college through affirmative action also indicates a great deal about her questionable qualifications.

Les Kimbler

Plus being appointed by the most criminal president in American history.

Mauricio Carvallan

…..Death to invaders, period!!!!!!!!!!!Open fire!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Twig

Why don’t she go by the law and not favor her own race….

Blood Bath

hahahahahahahahahaha, that is all I have for that incompetent justice. She should be removed and deported.

Debby Ward

bwahahahaha…no it’s not

xmeyerx

According to this logic dope dealers should be called unregistered pharmacists.

Brian Brumbaugh

Let’s see—there is a law. You break the law. You are a criminal. Are you sure she passed law school?

Deb Sandusky-Bjornson

She is a flipping liberal moron that like our fake president believes if you say it enough it will be true! What a bunch of crap!!!! Kick her and all her liberal idiot cronies to the curb!

armedandsafe

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There, Ms Sotomayer, is the truth, as opposed to your “feel good” statement.

Starla Anne Lowry

“…Sotomayor said it was tough at first as justices made references that went over her head….” If I am not mistaken, a Supreme Court Judge is not even required to have a degree in law. Really, they do not need one. What a judge need is a good knowledge of the Constitution and I personally any doubt that any Supreme Court judge has that or else they would not be ruling as they are.

Ray Giles

they broke the f—ing law you lowlife BITCH

Jethro

Pathetic!

Bill Gregg

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” Sotomayor is a Latina woman, but she sure as hell isn’t wise.

@Mauricio Carvallan you are not helping the cause. Stick to facts, not hate even though we are VERY against this Illegal Alien CRAP!

Angermanagement

As an American citizens who pays taxes to support my country, this person sitting in our capital, in the highest court of the land is not only an abomination, she is extremely offensive to me. A Supreme Court Justice that rejects our laws is not worth the salt off of a ………

Failed Training

Since it is a FELONY to cross the border ILLEGALLY, then they are CRIMINALS for doing it and being here ILLEGALLY. I’ll call them CRIMINALS because that is what they are.

rore73

If Sotomayor doesn’t understand that people who break the law are criminals, she damn sure doesn’t need to be serving as a Justice on the Supreme Court! She is typical of the lame brain appointments Obama makes!

rore73

If Sotomayor doesn’t understand that people who break the law are criminals, she damn sure doesn’t need to be serving as a Justice on the Supreme Court! She is typical of the lame brain appointments Obama makes!

Dee

It doesn’t matter how she sugar coats it and tries to dress it up….illegal aliens are still illegal, thus criminals. Put a dress on an elephant, you still have an elephant.

Leftbehind

Having this No Count Hog on the Supreme Court is More Disgusting .

Allan

She should get educated as to what Mexico does with their illegal aliens!!

Stop2think

No judge, what is insulting is Americans paying for the illegals free ride and the feds doing nothing to combat it. Using the term illegal alien does not make that person less of a human…just less of a law abiding human. Got it?

Bo Frye

How do these people get law degrees? We can’t elect them so we can’t get rid of them. What part of ILLEGAL doesn’t she understand? Take yourself down to the river and cross it illegally and see what happens.

Jason Alan Glazier

Illegal Aliens

Cyn

The came in illegally, they are illegals! No country in the world gives amnesty to illegal aliens, they deport them. You say ‘Labeling Illegal Aliens as ‘Criminals’ Is ‘Insulting’? Really? You madam, are insulting to law abiding, tax paying citizens that have to pay for this travesty of justice!

Douglas Wakeman

I wonder if they knew that Sonia Loadamanure didn’t know the meaning of the word “illegal” when they gave her a law degree?

Lori Pendleton

What’s criminal is a Judge not connecting the words “Illegal” and “Criminal”…..

Calling illegal aliens “immigrants” is “insulting” to all the legal immigrants who didn’t cheat to come here. Sotomayor should be ashamed for lumping both groups together as if there is no difference.

Kathy LaPlant

It is not insulting to label those who cross our borders illegally as criminals, as they are breaking established laws. No matter what the reason for their crossing, they go about it the wrong way. The immigration laws were established to keep law and order. To assist those who truely desire to live here and to keep the undesirables out. It is also not an economically sound policy to open the flood gates to all when we can’t take care of the working people now. Our economy is going down the tubes and it has nothing to do with the lack of laborors to fill our jobs. We have no jobs and Mother Earth is making a bad situation worse by limiting our domestically grown food supplies. Those people who use the argument that this country was founded by immigrants and therefore we should let all who wish to live here in, get back to this century and realize that things have changed. We are a nation with borders as all other nations are and we have banded together to form one union governed by law, and until we disband we all have to abide by those laws. Some laws are unfair, but there is a way to change those, established by our forefathers and still excercized today. Its called voting. Politicians now seem to want more illegals in order to swing votes to their positions rather than work hard to persuade those who already can vote. The practice is wrong and it takes advantage of the illegal immigrants who come here. They are just as affected by bad policy as those who were born here or those who came here legally.

DanaLanders

No surprise here. A total feckless, inept, fraud nominated another totally inept fraud to sit on our highest court in the land! smh we are so screwed…..

Robo

Her nomination and appointment to SCOTUS was really insulting.

Disgusted

It’s an insult to the American people that you as a Supreme Court Justice support and encourage criminals who violate our laws instead of respecting the Oath you took to defend and uphold our Constitution. Don’t preach to us……DO YOUR JOB!

Chia-Li Sung

Wait a minute, isn’t she one of the U.S. supreme court judges? and she thinks calling a criminal a criminal is “insulting”?? well, it’s pretty obvious that she was brought in NOT because of her expertise and more importantly, integrity in the legal field….Typical Latino mentality: Why should us Latinos respect the white people’s laws? We Latinos don’t live by laws, we live by whatever we feel like………

Susan Collins

When we go to a foreign country, we need proof of vaccinations. Illegal Aliens enter the country who knows what diseases they are bringing.

Jono

Obviously correct. Only white males can break the law.

MikeRios

It is insulting that this moronic Mexican is on the United States Supreme Court. Part of the oath that she took is to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States. Someone who breaks the law becomes a criminal. Even a law clerk knows that. For Sotomayor to say that calling border jumpers, wet backs, scratch backs, or whatever else they are, “illegal aliens” is insulting is just pandering to racist titty babies who think we should coddle this bunch because life is tough for them in Mexico. By crossing into the boundaries of a sovereign nation without express permission of that nation one becomes a law breaker thus making their designation ILLEGAL!

Sotomayor probably needs to get a grasp on the English language before she makes more of an idiot out of herself and embarrasses the rest of us Americans of Mexican (not Hispanic, whatever that is) descent. She also should understand that calling or giving someone a label based on their actions does not make them “less of a human being.” It just designates what that persons actions have made them become. If they cross a border illegally they are a criminal by their own choice. She is called a Judge based upon the choices she has made in life. She really needs to become an adult.

Kurt Laduron

Sotomayor is a Mexican….what do you expect, they are getting into every facet of Government…soon they will be the majority….bummer…

Angermanagement

speaker.gov scroll down to contact and you can leave him a written message with your thoughts on the illegal scourge reform agenda etc. please be respectful so you are taken seriously. Let him know how it would destroy the GOP etc.

Angermanagement

We are called racist and every other name you can think of. All colors, all races, all religions, all Americans are who we are fighting so hard to protect. Education, jobs, community pride, crime, morals, and the true American spirit can’t be maintained if we allow our government to make our countries des ions over for power, money, and FatCats that could care less about the people. We are like pawns in their games. Please do not feed the corruption lies and payoffs

seeingeye

Justice Sonia Sotomayor is insulting to my intelligence. “Undocumented” means “illegal.” And “illegal” means “criminal.” How hard is that to understand?